A/N: I apologize for the late update. This chapter was done about a week ago. Life has a way of throwing a wrench into the program. This chapter is also without the aid of a Beta Reader so i apologize for any mistakes I've made. If it's any consolation, I'm already halfway through the next chapter already. I hope you like it.

Deloris Umbridge sat at her table in the Leaky Cauldron absently stirring her tea. She was in deep thought overt the reversal of fortune that her life has taken. Two and half years ago she was the Undersecretary to the finest Minister of Magic in over a good century, her beloved Cornelius. A year and a half ago she had seized a vicious grim over Hogwarts and ousted the holier-than-thou Headmaster. She had reinstated proper teaching and disciplining practices at the school.

Through past associations at St. Mungo's she was able to have the current Mrs. Fudge poisoned during her yearly check up. The slow acting poison would take a few months to incubate in her body before showing any signs that the woman was even sick. By then it would be too late for even the finest of Healers to save her. One by one the organs in her body deteriorated. The once fine young body of the little tramp shrivel up like a prune. She had forgiven her love for his lapse in judgment for marring such an obvious gold-digger. The woman has seduced him with her wilds and manipulated him every chance she got. She needed to be removed permanently, and Cornelius would understandable turn to her for comfort.

Then Voldemort had to go and expose himself and the Wizarding World turned on her and her beloved in an instant. Cornelius was forced to resign as Minister, and she was kicked out of Hogwarts and downsized to a meager Secretary, a secretary! Then just the other day she was accosted while going to a job that was truly beneath her. Damn Ministry Shakedown!

"Hello Umbridge, Why am I not surprised that you would be the one to meet me?" A blond refine looking woman said, her voice dripping with contempt.

"Lady Greengrass, always a pleasure." Deloris returned with her usual fake sweetness. She motioned to an empty seat, to which the other Witch was hesitant to take, once she had Umbridge continued. "It's been awhile?"

"Not hardly long enough I'm afraid. So tell me how are things at the Ministry?" Gabriella asked with a knowing grin. Umbridge scowled at her for a second before smiling what she thought was charming, but in truth it would make an infant shriek in fear.

"You find it funny that I've been reduced to a common secretary do you? That I've been put out to pasture while in still in my prime? Damn Dumbledore and his propaganda. I was making real change at Hogwarts. Now I'm forced to work as an underling."

"You gotta love irony."

"Do not mock my pain woman! Do you know how humiliating it is that after all my years of service to the Ministry to be thrown against a wall like a common criminal? To be accosted and searched for the Dark Mark by none other than that filthy, Metamorphic, half-blooded, werewolf breeding whore! Just how many sexual favors did that thing have to perform to get into the Auror Corp?"

"How dare they let her earn an honest living based on her knowledge and skill? Don't they know that her kind only true purpose and servitude in this world can only be achieved on their backs?" Gabriella said rolling her eyes.

"Finally someone understands my plight." Umbridge answered while completely missing Gabriella's sarcasm.

"I must say that you are much more limber that you appear Deloris. It isn't everyday that one finds herself in the presence of a Witch that can insert her head up her own arse, but enough of the pleasantries. Do you have the information I requested?"

"Yes all the information that the Unspeakables have uncovered on the DeKy Slaveri Rune over the years is in there, even the use of it in the managing of lesser beings, and insuring the obedience of lustful wives that don't respect their Marriage Vows. Although for that disrespect you just displayed I should double the price."

"A laced innuendo with a threatening chaser, that is quite the exotic drink, but I must decline. I'm sure in your limited mind you believe that those women sold themselves into that life for wealth, power, and prestige. So I won't waste my breath challenging a clearly closed mind. As a supposed woman, don't you find it hypocritical that the men should have their cake and eat it too? To have a woman of substance on their arm in public, but debase themselves with a shameless scarlet woman in private?"

"They made their beds, duty demands that they should lay in them, and arrogance is most unbecoming of a supposed Noble Lady. I wonder what your husband would think of you looking into such things."

"A woman that so blatantly tortured Muggle-borns during her tenure at Hogwarts would know that with a truly gifted Healer in the Mind Arts, even an Obliterated memory could be recovered. The fact that it had to be pointed out to such a woman, suggests that she didn't cover her tracts nearly as well as she thought. If that information fell into the hands of people of influence then things could become unpleasant for that woman. Wouldn't you agree?"

"And who of any real importance would care about the proper education and administering of strict discipline to lesser Witches and Wizards?"

"I hear that Lady Potter has a soft spot for Muggle-borns, seeing as she is one herself."

"That's rich; she barely registers as a Lady."Deloris laughed out at the absurdity of Lady Greengrass's comment.

"But she is a Noble Lady and has all the privileges that come with that title."

"That's irrelevant she's hasn't been in the country for over a decade."

"You don't read the Daily Prophet much do you?"

"That rag please, they print nothing but lies."

"Then I take it you are not aware that she is now teaching at Hogwarts, properly molding young mind. Trust me when I say you don't want on her bad side, as Molly Weasley found out just this morning."

"That was Lily Potter?" Deloris asked as the color left her face.

"Oh, you did hear about that?"

"Everyone was talking about it at the ministry today," Deloris said with a slight squeak in her voice. If she was back in country that would be disastrous to her financial future, she needed to cash in now. Thankfully the girl was safely hidden in a Muggle orphanage, and safely out of sight. She was sure she had covered his tracks properly, but she also thought she had at Hogwarts.

"Why Deloris Umbridge, you look like someone just walked over your grave." Gabriella taunted Umbridge, but her Animagi scenes were screaming. She was starting to have very bad feeling about this. She had learned long ago to heed her Animagi warnings.

"As lovely as this little get together had been. I have other more pressing matters to address, so if you would kindly hand over the gold, you can have your ruddy file," Umbridge said standing up. She needed to check on something's and her patience with this woman was running dangerously thin.

"With pleasure, I would like nothing more that to wipe the last few minutes from my mind." In truth Gabriella felt like she needed to scrub her body vigorously when she got home to get the horrid woman's immorality off of her. The women made their exchange and parted ways without another word.

"Pixy" Gabriella called out and her newly acquired House Elf appeared at her side. Unlike the other House Elves that served the Greengrass's, this one was bonded and loyal to her alone.

"Yes Mistress, how may Pixy serve you?" The tiny creature asked with glee. She was eager to serve her new Mistress. Gabriella handed her a wrapped parcel and the file that she had just received. She gestured for the servant to wait for a moment as she wrote a quick note.

Padfoot,

This is my personal House Elf Pixy and she is loyal to me alone. I know you understand what I mean by that. I'm sending you a present, but it is personal in nature and I ask that you be alone in your bedchamber when you open it at 10 pm. sharp. I'm also sending you a copy of a file for a project I need your help with. I had to cross some lines to get it. I fear I may have stirred the cauldron the wrong way in doing so. Please keep a keen eye on Lily.

Love, Swiftfang

"I need you to make a copy of this file and take it and this gift to Sirius Black." Gabriella told Pixy as she handed her the items.

"Gone what do you mean she's gone?" Deloris more yelled that asked at the unfortunate woman that was in the office of the Ninth Street Orphanage. If these Muggles had lost the Metamorphous that she had left here for safe keeping, she would have this building burned to the ground along with everyone in it. They were only Muggles after all; it wasn't like their lives really mattered.

It was a stroke of brilliant luck that she was the one that was called to investigate a case of possible accidental magic. The girl's mother seemed to know right away that she was a Witch. The Muggle claimed that she had a relative that was a Witch, but she couldn't contact her at the moment; more over her relative didn't even know she had a child.

It took her all of two seconds to see that the little Muggle was not only a Witch, but a Metamorphous as well. Protocols deemed that she Obliviate the woman and her family then hand the child over to the MSR to be placed into a bleeding heart magical family. What a joke it was, as if her species counted for human. This one was a Mudblood no less, and her only true connection to the Wizarding World was a relative that didn't even know she existed.

Through her job at the Ministry she knew about the trade that dealt with the child's type. She was also well informed as to the list of individuals that had a certain fetish for them. Those wealthy citizens would pay generously for the opportunity to indulge that particular indulgence. She also knew who trained those girls to perform superbly in the arts of the flesh.

In the past Deloris had extorted gold in exchange for looking the other way. She was a Witch of expensive tastes, and her Ministry salary only went so far. Why shouldn't she profit from a very lucrative and growing market. It seemed too auspicious to just let this opportunity to pass by.

The child was only four and would need to be housed somewhere deep in the Muggle community, so not to draw unwanted attention. It would be years before she would be old enough to make her any gold anyway. She sure as hell wasn't going to care for the girl herself. Not someplace too nice, she wanted the girl to be pushed down so that she would be easier to control when she conveniently rescued her. Deprive her of any kindness and acknowledgment and she would desperately cling and obey the first one to show her any. With some stern conditioning she would perform any task asked of her without pause.

Since she knew that the child's metamorphic ability weren't dependent on her magic. She knew of a rune that would serve to keep her from having anymore accidental magic mishaps, plus ensure she would have no Muggle friends. Usually it required three to properly brand it to someone, but she was confident she could do it just as well herself. She highly doubted the child's magical core was any match for hers.

The Muggle woman was at her wits end. She didn't know how to properly care for the child; she was barely scraping by as it was. Her husband had left her when she refused to drop her daughter off at an orphanage, and took her son with him. The woman asked Umbridge if she could find her sister and tell her she needed her help. Upon hearing her sisters name Deloris assured her that she was believed to be dead. She convinced the stupid woman to take the child to an orphanage under an assumed name. Umbridge said she would ensure that the child was placed in a proper magical home, she also convinced the woman to name her as the child's Magical Guardian until she was adopted.

The desperate woman was easily manipulated thanks to a Compulsion Charm. She was tricked into signing all the documents that she put in front of her. Deloris took the woman and her future nest egg to the Ninth Street Orphanage. Upon returning to the woman's home the promptly Obliviated her and then removed all evidence that the woman ever had a daughter.

From time to time she checked in on her little investment. The girl had made a friend with a boy even after she was branded with the rune, He seemed resistant to it as well as all her other attempts at control. She was forced to call in a favor and have the boys mind altered. Because a Squib worked there she had to occasionally Obliviate her as well.

She had let that slide when she and her beloved tried to take over Hogwarts. After that all went to hell, and Cornelius was ousted as Minister of Magic, she was put under investigation. She managed to keep her job at the Ministry, but at half the pay and banished to the Archives. She managed to scrap by making the occasional record disappear, or in Greengrass's case pull buried files out of storage. That would have to do until the child was of age and she could use her status as Magical Guardian to gain access a potentially huge Vault. Now this stupid Muggle was telling her that they had lost the one thing that her financial future was contingent on.

"No you misunderstand me Mrs. Fudge. She was given a scholarship to the Hogwarts Academy. She started school a few days ago." The nervous woman answered.

"She's at Hogwarts!" Deloris shrieked.

"Quite frankly were all rather pleased about it. This place runs a lot smother without having the disruptions she causes underfoot. I explained this all to the woman the school sent to collect her records."

"What, someone from the school came here asking questions?"

"Yes she was quite curious about whom her parents were, but the records have been lost. I sent her off to ask Mrs. Lancaster."

"You stupid twit! Do you realize what you have done?" This wasn't good. Everything that she had carefully put in place was now coming unraveled. She had hoped to wait until the child had blossomed more before collecting her. Oh well, an ageing potion would solve that little dilemma. The girl was at Hogwarts, and so was Lily Potter, and someone was already snooping into her past. She would have to work fast, before she became exposed. She had to get the documentation as the girls Magical Guardian to remove her from Hogwarts, but that would have to wait until tomorrow. Tonight she would have to call in some favors and sever all the loose ends that connected her to the child.

"Excuse me?"

"Why am I even wasting my breath with someone like you? OBLIVIATE!"

Alecto Carrow was sitting in her parlor sipping tea when Deloris Umbridge stepped out of her fireplace. In a moment she had her wand at her intruder's neck. Deloris seemed more annoyed that concerned.

"Didn't your mother even teach you it is bad manners to barge into someone's home unannounced Umbridge." Alecto sneered at her. Deloris simply batted away her wand and walked across the room and poured herself a generous drink of something much stronger that tea. After emptying the contents of the glass in one gulp, she turned to face the known Death Eater.

"It seems that we are forced to move up our timetable a bit. It appears that you're going to get to train the girl a few years sooner than we previously agreed. Better yet, set up an auction as soon as possible. I had hoped to manage the girl myself, but recent events suggest a quick payoff would better serve my goals."

"I'll have to age her up to get the best price, but training won't be required. We'll get a superior purse if she's untouched, most buyers like to do the training themselves."

"I could care less, but I will need you to silence a few people for me and time is limited." Deloris told her as she handed her a list with names and locations on them. Alecto looked over the list with a raised brow.

"My price just doubled, and I want ten percent of you take on the auction."

"We had a deal."

"Well deals change my dear. You should really learn to adapt seeing as time is an issue with you." Alecto finished as she took her seat and sipped her tea once more.

"I could easily tell the Auror's where you are." Deloris threatened, to which Alecto giggled at.

"I think we both know that's an empty threat. You have far more to lose her than me. Tick tock, tick tock, my price is about to double again."

"Fine, just make it happen!" Deloris yelled over her shoulder, as she stepped into the fire place and Flooed away.

"So what did that fat toad want?" Lucius asked as he stepped into the room wearing only a robe. Alecto smiled coyly at him as she motioned him over with a curved finger motion. Two years ago she would never had slept with him. He was too polished for her tastes, but that was no longer the case. Lucius's fall from grace had humbled the man somewhat, but the thing about him that made his toes curl were his scars. It seemed she had developed a fetish for scars.

"You over dressed." She commanded with a stern gaze.

"So are you." He countered with a half grin.

"My home my rules, lose it!" She ordered with a snap of her fingers. Lucius shrugged then tossed the robe across the room and stood naked in front of her. "That's better. I demand obedience in my lovers, and reward accordingly." She finished as she took his manhood in her hand and started to stroke it.

"I believe that fortune has just smiled upon us."

"Do tell." Lucius groaned out.

"Tomorrow that stupid Witch is going to deliver us an unspoiled and unregistered Metamorphous."

"I assume untrained as well."

"Well that's the fun part now isn't. Of course were going to kill the fat pig once she does, but first we need to clean up any lose ends. You take half the list and I'll take the other." She suggested before she took him in her mouth.

"I love the way you close a deal."

When 10 pm. Rolled around Sirius found himself alone in his room with Gabriella's gift. He was anxious to see what it was. From the shape of the gift he guessed it was a portrait or something of that kind. There was a card with it so he opted to read it first.

Padfoot,

Do you remember how we use to talk to each other after hours?

Love Swiftfang

Sirius smiled as he remembered that they had a pair of mirrors like he and James had. A goofy grin spread across his face as he remembered how interesting some of their conversation had gotten. He ripped the wrapping off the gift like it was Christmas morning, to reveal a small mirror in a monogamy frame. It seemed odd to have a frame around a simple hand mirror. The carving in the wood seemed too intricate. He rolled his eyes for not getting it from the off. He canceled the shrinking charm on it and it grew into a very large mirror. He used a sticking charm and placed it on the wall across from his bed.

He was curious why she had sent such a large mirror to him, but knowing her she probably had a first-class purpose for it. Now all he had to do was ask it show him her. Knowing her current situation asking for her legal name was out and he refused to call her by that name.

"Show me Gabriella Drake." Sirius commanded, but nothing happened.

"Show me Gabriella." Again nothing.

"Show me Gaby" Sirius tried her pet name but it also didn't work. He growled out in frustration. He glanced down at the card for a possible clue and smacked himself in the head. It was pretty obvious.

"Show me Swiftfang." To Sirius's relief the image Gabriella appeared in the mirror. Unlike before when all he was ever able to see of her was her face, he now could see most of her body, and he gulped at what he saw. It looked like she was sitting at a vanity brushing her hair in a very elegant bathrobe. It was opened just enough to display her ample cleavage in the most sultry of ways. The woman liked to play dirty, and he absolutely love it that she did.

"Seriously? It took you five minutes to figure it out?" She teased with one raised brow, and the word play on his name.

"You look amazing, love the bathrobe; it really brings out your…eyes." Sirius told her as he unconsciously licked his lips. She rolled said eyes at his own use of word play unaware of the color change in her own cheeks.

"What, this old thing?" She asked with fake sincerity.

"Why do women always say a garment is old, when it is obviously new?" Sirius grinned out as he called her bluff.

"It's all part of the illusion of being demure, which I might add you're ruining, so stop it." She scorned him as she adjusted her robe so her cleavage was no longer in sight. Sirius stuck out his bottom lip and gave his sad eyes. She returned fire by narrowing her own eyes, and crossing her arms over her chest.

"This isn't a fair game."

"Bo-ho"

"I apologize for my brazenness. You beautiful smile makes everything looks new." Gabriella was surprised that he actually sounded sincere when he said that. He was full of shite, always was and always would be. Still, it was a pretty good suck up.

"Good answer, you're forgiven." She teased and rewarded him by uncrossing her arms. He couldn't help but grin like an idiot.

"Where did you get that file? It was very detailed." Sirius asked after shaking himself out of his enthralled state that she always seemed to get him into.

"Unspeakables archives, Deloris Umbridge acquired it for me. She a despicable woman and I didn't like her reaction when she learned Lily was back. My Animagi senses were screaming, and they're rarely wrong. I'm worried about her. She's suffered too much in her life; I hope I just didn't add to it." Gabriella told him with a fretful expression. In their school days the two women were friendly, but not overly close. Sirius and James always chocked it up to different social backgrounds. Life has a way of making one realize how little that mattered in the long run. Both of them had learned the hard way that life was rarely fair.

"I'll give her a heads up. She's worried about you as well." At his admission she looked flabbergasted for lack of a better word.

"She doesn't think in a wicked overindulgent woman for pursuing this?" Some of Gabriella's secret fears had slipped out, and he didn't like the way she had berated herself. He would do his best to stifle them.

"She's on our side. Hell, she slapped me in the back of my head and told me to pull my head out of my arse, said life was too bloody short. I think she understands your situation better than most."

"I'm afraid my daughters won't. They're smart enough to know that my marriage isn't based in love, but he is still their father. I don't want to lose them. They're my greatest treasure."

"You daughters come first and always will. I'm sure Daphne already has a few questions for you."

"What? Oh that little sneak, I never should have mentioned how good of a kissed you were. Just how much did she get out of you?" Gabriella asked him. Knowing her daughters methodical nature, she expected the worst.

"You trained her well. I never saw it coming until it was too late. She knows we were lovers."

"I'll have to check to see if she sent me a letter. How did she take it?"

"She said it explained a lot actually. It seems you were blushing when you talked about me." Sirius teased her and got another blush from her in response.

"Traitor"

"Gaby, there are some things that I did I'm not-" The regret in his voice tore at her heart. Did he think she wouldn't understand?

"Stop! We both had to do thing to survive. No apologies." She told him in earnest.

"All right, no apologies. Just so you know, after you, they all felt hollow."

"I know my love, I know." She answered as a tear traveled down her cheek. Oh, how his words made her heart soar. She reached across her vanity and pressed her hand against the mirror. Sirius repeated the gesture on his side. They weren't really holding hands, but they felt the connection just the same.

"I want to end this night on a high note, and give you the proper motivation for our little project." That mischievous sparkle was back in her eyes, as she stood up.

"And how pray tell do we do that?" Sirius asked with impish smirk

"Simple, we're going to play a little game," She said with a grin as naughty as his. "For the next hour I'm going to pretend that my hands are your hands. So Lord Black, what should what would you like your hands to do?"

"That's the reason you sent me the big mirror?"

"I'm glad you're all caught up and all, but this is your hour, and anything goes."

"In that case, it looks very hot in there. Let's start by removing that old thing."

Alecto stood over Rose Lancaster's sleeping body. The most grievous of smiles danced across her face. The woman's facial similarities to her own mother were too striking to be a coincidence. She was told that there was a Squid in the family on her mother's side, a sister if she was correct. Of course she was disowned and cast off so not to infect the rest of the family. It would not go over well with the other members of the Inner Circle if her connection to this woman got out. She had to kill her and make sure her face was unrecognizable. Not that she wasn't going to kill her anyway, but this particular kill way just going to be one of life's guilty little pleasures.

She used a Silencing Charm to ensure their privacy. She didn't want the woman's screaming to draw the attention of others. She did so love toying with her prey before killed them. Alecto could have just killed her in her sleep and been on her way, but what is the fun in that? She hit the old woman with a Stinging Hex to wake her up.

"AHHH!" Rose shrieked out as she way painfully pulled from her dreams. As soon as she saw the Death Eater standing over her, she froze in terror. Her sister who she secretly still had kept in touch with had described them to her, and told her if she ever saw one to run like hell.

"Awake I see, it's good to meet your own death with your eyes wide open. Just like your husband did." She taunted her. Rose's eyes filled with tears at the thought of how her husband had must have met his death.

"Oh, is Aunty Rosey going to cry?" Alecto ridicule as she removed her Death Eater's mask so the woman could see the face of her killer. Rose recognized her face immediately, and it showed as her widened eyes. "He died well you know, much better than most Muggles I've killed. None of that whining and begging for life like I usually hear. He just took his medicine like a good little boy. Pity he was so old. He would have made a halfway useful servant."

"Murdering Bitch!"

"To the core Squib to the core, is that my mother's magic I sense on that ring of yours? She always did have a soft spot for your kind. How ironic is it that I'm the one that's going to end you?"

"Why? What did we ever do to you?" Rose knew it was close to the time that woman said she was coming. Her only chance was to keep her Niece talking until she arrived. It didn't seem all that difficult. The woman struck her as the type that liked to hear the sound of her own voice.

"Honestly, could you ask anything more cliché? I suppose it could give you that boring standard, and say it's nothing personal, just business. Then there is always the popular because you were born line that my brother is quite fond of using, but for me it's always a pleasure, it's practically orgasmic. Come to think about it, I do believed I lit one up after I did you husband."

"You cruelty and viciousness will be paid back on you tenfold. Karma will insure my Todd receives his justice and much sooner than you think." Rose sneered at her would be killer. The woman was so caught up in her taunting that she failed to notice that the light coming from the doorway suggested that they were no longer alone.

"And just who is this Karma that will avenge your fallen husband?"

"Perhaps you should turn around and ask them yourself?" Rose suggested with a gleaming smile. Alecto eyes shot wide as she saw the shadows of others on the wall in front of her. She threw a cutting curse wildly at the direction she hoped the owners of the shadows still were as she spun around to meet them.

"Marauders" Alecto addressed them with a voice full of scornfulness. Before her stood three figures in crimson robes spread far enough apart that no one curse could get them at once. Their faces were hidden behind masks of an owl, hawk, and lioness. Their body shapes and the way they held themselves suggested they were all female. Good, it was a long time since she had a proper catfight. Rose took the advantage of the distraction to roll off of the bed and crawl under the safety of a nearby bed. She had no place in this confrontation, best to lay low until it was over.

Three stunners headed Alecto's way, which she blocked by levitating an occupied bed into the way. She followed with a Blasting Curse that she threw it at her enemy's. The owl blasted the bed back at her, while the lioness levitated the unconscious man to the ground. The one with a hawk mask turned into one and tried to fly past her, most likely going after the Squib. She threw another cutting curse at her as she moved out of the way of the flying bed. Her spell clipped the hawk on the wing spraying blood as it went down hard. The bed the Death Eater just avoided smashed into the bed that her intended victim had just recently vacated, and slid into another one. Somewhere underneath all that mess was her target.

Several of the more lucid residents of the Long-term Medical Ward had the good sense to run out of the room, but more than half were so stuck in their own world to pay much mind to the fact that their lives could end at any second.

"Well Talon, it looks like only being a Look Out just flew out the window. I'll get these people out. You deal with the bootlicker." Lily told her as she started throwing the charm her son perfected. The floor under the beds of the occupants shimmered like water before they sank into it and were deposited them in the lobby.

Alecto signed in disgust; there types were all the same, trying to protect possible victims, when they should concentrate on the threat in front of them. She had already taken out one of them, and now another one was spiting their chances of success. Who was she to criticize their battle shortsightedness? She planned to capitalize on it. She knew taking out the hawk was more blind luck than skill. It was only an arm wound, if she was luck it was her wand arm, but she didn't plan on betting her life on it. It was only a matter of time before the Auror's would arrive, or more of these damn Marauders. She needed to create enough chaos to keep them busy so she could kill her target and get out.

"CONFRINGO...CONFRINGO...CONFRINGO!" Alecto yelled as she fired the curses at the beds that stood between her and one with an owl mask. Debris of destroyed beds and body parts of mangled patients went flying everywhere. She took a moment to revel in her masterful work.

The Furnunculus Curse that hit her in her left arm from behind reminded her that it was a foolish decision. She winced as boils formed up and down her arm. She pushed past the pain as she was trained to do and returned fire with an Expulso at the roof above her attacker. Andromeda with one now useless arm dived out of the way, but a large chunk of the ceiling landed on her legs.

"Andy!" Narcissa screamed from across the room. She had just seen the roof fall on her sister. That bitch was standing over her a breath away from ending her life. At that moment she didn't care if she just broke the rule about calling each other by their given name. Narcissa charged the Death Eater throwing curse after curse at her. Alecto took cover behind a pile of mangled beds before throwing curses back at her. One lucky shot hit Narcissa in the face. Her mask took the blunt of the attack, but her face was reviled.

"Malfoy you traitorous bitch! I should have known! The Dark Lord will filial the flesh from you worthless sons body for your betrayal! Oh, and I've been bedding you husband, he quite delicious."

"You can have him, but what makes you think you'll survive this night?" Narcissa momentarily paled as she realized her identity was revealed, before the possible danger to her son broke her out of it and she sent a threat of her own. Lucius she could care less about. No sooner than the words left her lips, that a wall of fire separated Narcissa and Lily from the other three. Lily changed into a lioness and charged Carrow. Just as Lily was about to go through the flames Narcissa cast a Flame-Freezing Charm in them.

Seeing a lioness jumping through a wall of flames would unsettle even the most seasoned Death Eater. Alecto Carrow was no exception. Fangs and claws were all she saw as her body betrayed her. The sensation of warm urine running down her leg pulled her out of her dazed state. Disgust at her self-induced humiliation drove her into action.

"Incarcerous" Carrow yelled and roped wrapped around the lioness. As Lily clawed and bite to break free of the ropes, Alecto sought out her reason for being there in the first place. Narcissa leapt through the flaming wall and banished the ropes from Lily. She turned back into a human and her friend helped her to her feet. Lily in her hurry had forgotten to apply her mask.

"POTTER! My, my, my, now isn't this an interesting change of events. What would Bella say about you skulking around with this street trash?"

"You shot your filthy mouth! You're not even a sliver of the woman she is." Narcissa screamed in defense of her friend.

"Switched teams have you? My condolences, but if either of you move I'll spill this Squib's guts all over this floor." Callow warned. Both Lily and Narcissa rolled their eyes at her comment. Alecto pulled Rose from her hiding place and had her wand at the old woman's throat and a poisoned dagger pressed into her stomach. Both Lily and Narcissa held their ground, but didn't advance either. "Good, now both of you drop your wands."

"Don't you dare! My niece is going to kill me anyway!" Rose warned them.

"Shut up!" Carrow snapped at Rose as she dug her blade deeper into her disowned Aunt. Rose sensed that her time on this planet was drawing near, and decided to take an active part in the battle. She was already dead and she knew it. Alecto had already drawn blood, and she could feel poison coursing thru her. She had just one little piece of unfinished business before she would join her Todd.

"Emma's Birth Certificate was a fraud. There was no father on it, and the mother's was an obvious fake. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help. Please for the sake of Merlin, kill this horrid woman." Rose finished as she stomped her heel down on Alecto's right toe and grabbed the hand that had the dagger in it. Carrow hissed in pain as she was momentarily staggered by the act, and before she could properly react Rose plunged the poisoned dagger into herself. She chose to meet her husband on her own terms.

As Rose's legs gave out and she started to fall, Alecto knew she was about to lose her human shield. She pushed the dying woman into Narcissa, and activated her emergency Portkey. She disappeared just as Lily's stunner was about to hit her. Narcissa gently lowered Rose to the floor and Lily joined them. She moved to remove the blade when dying woman stopped her.

"It's too late for me dear, go help that other woman. I'll be with my Todd very soon." Rose told Lily as she patted her hand in a way that let her know it was okay. Lily gave her a sad, but understanding nod before going to help Andromeda.

"You didn't have to do that." Narcissa choked out.

"Right or wrong it was my choice. I just ask that you protect the children. Adam is not what he appears to be, and he will be on her list. Please protect him."

"I was planning on that anyway. Dobby!"

"Yes Mistress Narcissa?" Dobby answered after he popped next to her.

"Take Adam home and watch over him until I arrive."

"Yes Mistress." Was heard then followed by another pop.

"Thank you dear."

"Are you sure her mother's name was a fake?"

"Honestly, who in their right mind would name their daughter Tuney?" Those were Rose Lancaster's final words as she closed her eyes for the last time, with a content smile on her face. Lily's head snapped up and she looked over at them with a haunted expression. She got up and walked over to them. Cissy couldn't help but notice that Lily's legs were a little shaky.

"What did she say the mothers name was?" Lily's voice seemed like a fearful child's to her friend.

"She said that the name on Emma's Birth Certificate was Tuney. Why are you looking so panicky?" Narcissa cursed herself for asking Lily to come along tonight. Harry wanted her kept in the dark about the Mission. He never said the reason why, and she chalked it up to him being overprotective. Now she could see that those reasons were very justified.

"Emma, as in Emma Walker?" Lily asked and Cissy could hear the strain in Lily's voice. She reluctantly nodded and saw tears run down her friend's cheeks as her bottom lip quivered. Lily slowly started to back up. Why hadn't she seen it before? Lily asked herself. Emma had little gestures she did when she was nervous that seemed too familiar to Lily. She also felt a connection to her, but just assumed it was because Harry was so fond of her.

"Walker is your mum's maiden name wasn't it?" Narcissa asked even though she was sure of the answer.

"I have to go." Lily told her as she picked up a chunk of the fallen ceiling, and turned it into a Portkey.

"NO! YOU CAN'T GO ALONE!" Narcissa yelled as she tried to get up, but Lily was gone before she could get to her.

"Mistress! ExMaster is at the Orphanage! He's killing everyone!" Dobby screamed as he reappeared.

"Cissy don't you dare!" Andromeda yelled at her sister, but she and Dobby were gone before she finished her sentence. "She had to pick today to become a bloody Gryffindor." She growled out. She sent her Patronus to her daughter calling for back up.

A/N: I was hoping to have this night done in one chapter, but decided add a few more things. In the long run i hope it will be better for it. Let me know what you think, and again I apologize for any mistakes I'm sure I've made.